EPA Cites TSCA Overhaul In Latest Denial Of Petition Targeting Chemicals

EPA is citing its ongoing work to implement the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) as justification for what appears to be the third rejection of a petition asking for either testing or banning of chemicals since enactment of the TSCA overhaul, while outlining and expanding the minimum information it wants to see in any future petitions. In a notice slated for publication in the April 12 Federal Register , the agency formally rejects the petition from environmentalists asking it...